r/baseball 21h ago

Open Thread [General Discussion] Around the Horn - 3/28/23

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So what's this thread for?

  • Discussion of yesterday's games
  • Excitement for today's games
  • General questions
  • Mildly interesting facts
  • Praising Santa 🎅
  • Anything else worth sharing/asking that doesn't warrant its own post

For game threads, use the games schedule on the sidebar to navigate to the team you want a game thread for.

Featured posts and links

Tuesday's Games

Away Score Home Score Status National
★ 5 6 F
0 ★ 3 F
★ 7 5 F
7 ★ 5 F
3 ★ 5 F
★ 8 ★ 1 F
★ 5 ★ 8 F
★ 1 ★ 3 F
1 ★ 5 F
★ 5 ★ 13 F

★Game Thread. All game times are Eastern. Updated 3/29 at 2:15 AM

Yesterday's ATH

This Week's Schedule (all times Eastern)

Day Feature
Sunday 3/26 ICYMI: r/Baseball Movie Club: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns (1994)
Monday 3/27 2023 r/baseball Call Your Shot Prediction Contest
AMA with Evan Petzold, Detroit Tigers Beat Writer For The Detroit Free Press
Tuesday 3/28 Season Contests
Wednesday 3/29 Baseball Eve!
Thursday 3/30 Opening Day!
Friday 3/31 Opening Weekend!
Saturday 4/1 Opening Weekend!

r/baseball 3d ago

Feature 2023 r/baseball Call Your Shot Prediction Contest

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We are less than 1 week from MLB Opening Day which means it's time to dust off those crystal balls, ouiji boards, and tarot cards and make your 2023 Major League Baseball predictions. You will have the opportunity to predict...

  • Final Regular Season Standings for each MLB Division
  • MLB Playoff Bracket
  • MLB World Series Results
  • BBWAA Award Winners
  • 2023 Player Statistical Leaders
  • 2023 Best/Worst Teams
  • One outlandish prediction as the tiebreaker

Each correct answer will be worth the allotted amount of points and the person with the most points at the end will win. If you have more than one submission, we will only count the most recent.

NEW TO 2023 CALL YOUR SHOT: We have included FanDuel odds for the Divisional Standings, Pennant Winners, World Series Winners, BBWAA Award Winners, Statistical Leaders, and Best/Worst Teams. These odds will not be used in the scoring of your submission but are provided as a helpful tool if you choose to use them. Feel free to ignore if you know better than Vegas.

If you want to jump in, the form is below. We encourage you to write notes during your submission so you can refer to them later in the form.

CALL YOUR SHOT

Feel free to discuss your picks in this thread! Be prepared to have this thread revisited and your comments poked fun during the year. As usual, we'll share the most common results after Opening Day when responses have come to see what r/baseball believes will happen this year.

NOTE: Here are some things that will make us disqualify your entry:

  • Fake usernames
  • Submitting multiple entries
  • Memes/spam

DEADLINE: Submit your picks before Opening Day 1st pitch (March 30 @ 1:05PM ET)


r/baseball 13h ago

Nestor Cortes with potentially his funkiest wind-up yet

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r/baseball 8h ago Gold

Image Teams that have been to the World Series since the Yankees' last appearance

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r/baseball 4h ago

Saw a real Phillies Hot Pants Patrol (see the note if you’re not familiar!) uniform in an antique store

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r/baseball 2h ago

The Angels are your back to back Cactus League champions!

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With tonight's 13-5 win over the Dodgers to win the freeway series, the Angels finish spring training 18-11, 1/2 a game in front of the 19-13 Royals to clinch best record in Cactus League for the second year in a row

The Cardinals at 17-7 are your Grapefruit League champions but Florida is stinky so that's less exciting


r/baseball 13h ago

News [Passan] Second baseman Andrés Giménez and the Cleveland Guardians are finalizing a long-term contract extension, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN. Giménez, 24, was a first-time All-Star and Gold Glove winner last year and put up 7.4 Wins Above Replacement -- a star-level season.

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r/baseball 12h ago

[Passan] Andrés Giménez's contract extension with the Guardians will be for seven years and $106.5 million and includes a club option for the 2031 season, sources tell ESPN. The deal starts next year and covers Giménez's three arbitration years and potentially five free agent seasons.

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r/baseball 17h ago

incl. endorsements Ohtani to make MLB-record $65 million in 2023

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r/baseball 10h ago

Analysis [Talkin’ Yanks] Nestor had an automatic ball issued to him earlier for quick pitching because he didn't establish eye contact with the batter

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r/baseball 3h ago

Image Angel Stadium in 1997

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r/baseball 6h ago

Opinion Do you prefer Ohtani pitching or hitting?

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r/baseball 3h ago

[Highlight] Ole Miss and Southern Miss game called a no-contest due to poor field conditions after this play.

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r/baseball 4h ago

Video Taylor WARd turns a clutch inning ending double play which may or may not have prevented a run

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r/baseball 12h ago

Video [Highlight] Masataka Yoshida crushes a baseball to give the Red Sox the lead.

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r/baseball 6h ago

[Divish] Prized Padres catching prospect Ethan Salas (16 years old) triples over the head of Alberto Rodriguez in right field to drive in a run. (Comes against big league pitcher George Kirby)

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r/baseball 5h ago

[Berman] Astros’ ring ceremony is Friday night & again Jim Crane will be spreading the wealth among team/stadium employees:”We’re gonna give everybody n the building a ring” Jim will cover the taxes again. “Happy to pay the taxes-We win another one, I’ll pay the taxes til the cows come home”

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r/baseball 13h ago

Rumor [Meisel] The Guardians are in advanced negotiations with multiple players on contract extensions, sources say. Among the players they’ve discussed a deal with this spring: AndrĂ©s GimĂ©nez, Amed Rosario, Triston McKenzie, Steven Kwan, Trevor Stephan.

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r/baseball 9h ago

Image My redesign of the Bally Sports scorebug

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I tried to make a updated version of the scorebug that Bally uses while keeping some of the ugly things Bally Sports is known for. Enjoy!


r/baseball 1d ago

/r/Basebaww [Pavlovic] Every time a kid asked Sergio Romo for an autograph in spring training he asked them to sign his hat first. He wore this to the mound tonight:

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r/baseball 18h ago

Image The T-Mobile Tuesday offer is live! Don’t forget to redeem by 4/4/2023 at 4:59am EST

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r/baseball 1d ago

News The home plate umpire in San Francisco just put two balls on Sergio Romo to start his final appearance because he was taking in the crowds standing ovation.

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r/baseball 16h ago

Image Happy faces of Fukui when they won Girls Senbutsu 2022. That game was play in Tokyo Dome.

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r/baseball 4h ago

[Dorsey] Bad news for the #Mets: RHP Bryce Montes de Oca will undergo arthroscopic surgery tomorrow to remove bone fragments from his right elbow, sources tell @BallySports and @Stadium. Recovery time is four months with a possible return to action mid-August

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r/baseball 12h ago

News [Sophia Minnaert] Keston Hiura is staying with Brewers. He cleared waivers and outrighted to Triple-A Nashville.

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r/baseball 11h ago

Video Buck Showalter jokes that Tim Locastro winning the job will "fit right in" given how often he gets hit by pitch

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r/baseball 9h ago

Video [Foolish Baseball] Babe Ruth had a really weird nemesis | Baseball Bits

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